Tuesday, February 10, 2026

“I’LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!”

It’s never going to happen, but Trump’s never going to stop talking about it. Which is damaging enough.

Maybe the new Congress will put a cork in it. But that’s a year away, at best. In the meantime: fantasy land.
Tariffs built on air: Trump invents a Swiss "Prime Minister" to threaten with imaginary taxes. Governance by hallucination now funds campaign applause lines.

Switzerland's actual leader is President Parmelin—no PM exists. Federal Register shows Swiss tariffs at 15%, unchanged since July 2025. Yet Trump fabricates a 39% hike and hostile call, contradicted by Swiss authorities Feb 7. Meanwhile, his real 20% tariffs spiked consumer prices 4.2% annually.

Policy forged from fiction always taxes truth first.
Angus: It’s like having to negotiate with Al Capone in his syphilitic period. You want to shut down the bridge? Go ahead. Every day, 1,500 nurses from Canada go to help keep Detroit’s health care system going. I personally think those nurses should be working in Canada.

You’re going to what—shake us down like you’re the loser real estate guy from Queens, and threaten to burn our laundromat to the ground if we don’t pay up?
Like this?
EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: A Grand Jury in Washington Rebuffed the Trump Justice Dept.'s Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress who posted a video last fall that enraged President Trump by reminding active-duty members of the military and intelligence community that they were obligated to go refuse illegal orders. The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.
There’s quite a lively discussion on BlueSky, which I am not competent to assess, about the affidavit used to secure the Fulton County search warrant. One problem seems to be the grounds for the search included a possible violation of federal law regarding retaining ballots for 22 months. The search was for ballots related to the 2020 election. 

It seems the other crimes more or less alleged are equally long past their statutes of limitations. Fulton County has sued to recover the documents taken. The case should be an interesting one.

If this is how Trump is going to “take over the election,” it’s not going to go well for him. Even in Texas:
At a recent campaign event in Houston in which he touted the endorsement of several labor unions, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was asked directly about Trump's suggestions to nationalize elections.

"Listen, my understanding of the United States Constitution, uh, and that is elections for state positions are to be conducted by states, and I don’t think we should deviate from that," Abbott said.

...

No formal proposal has been introduced by the administration. But according to University of Houston political science professor Brandon Rottinghaus, any effort to move forward with a plan would face significant legal hurdles.

"If this was to move forward they would have to have congressional approval," Rottinghaus said. "The president could not do this on his own through executive order or any other unilateral means. That doesn’t mean that they won’t try, because the president has definitely been muscular in his attempts to use unilateral power to affect policy change."

...

"If the governor and the president are at odds over the voting issue, then the conflict is serious. You don’t normally see much daylight between the two," Rottinghaus said.

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"It’s not surprising to see Abbott cool to Trump’s request to nationalize elections, both because the Constitution is so clear that this is a state power," said Joshua Blank, research director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin. "It’s also the case that Republicans have long held that this is a power that should be solely governed by the states."
And as much as Texans might like Republicans over Democrats, they pride themselves on their independence even more. And: 🙀
From your lips to 217 pairs of ears. Please tell people the economy is better than they are experiencing it.  That always works.
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